Ryan Coogler’s ‘Fruitvale Station’ Among 2013 Cannes LineupPosted By Wilson Morales
April 18, 2013
Source: Variety
Ryan Coogler‘s Sundance Award-winning film, which is now titled ‘Fruitvale Station‘ is headed to the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Also playing at the fest is Stephen Frear‘s HBO film, ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight,’ which explores Ali’s biggest match, his fight with the US government. Cannes will close with Jerome Salle’s Thriller ‘Zulu,’ starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom.
Heralding a strong year for American auteurs on the Croisette, Palme d’Or laureates Steven Soderbergh and Joel and Ethan Coen will square off with Alexander Payne and James Gray at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, as fest delegate general Thierry Fremaux and president Gilles Jacob announced a starry slate of U.S. and English-language fare at a Paris press conference on Thursday.
In light of earlier announcements that Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” would open the festival on May 15 and that Steven Spielberg would serve as president of the jury, the strong Hollywood presence in this year’s lineup comes as little surprise.
The Coen brothers, previously in competition with 2007’s “No Country for Old Men,” will make a return appearance with “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a look at New York’s ’60s folk-music scene starring Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake. Payne, last in Cannes with “About Schmidt,” will return with another road-trip comedy, “Nebraska,” starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte and set in the writer-director’s native Omaha. Jeremy Renner, Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard star in Gray’s 1920s-set drama “The Immigrant,” which previously went by the titles “Lowlife” and “Nightingale.”
Soderbergh, who recently competed for Berlin’s Golden Bear with his final theatrical film, “Side Effects,” will get another sendoff on the Croisette with his made-for-HBO miniseries “Behind the Candelabra,” starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as Liberace and his younger lover, Scott Thorson, respectively. Although Olivier Assayas’ six-hour telepic “Carlos” was barred from competing at the festival in 2010, there’s a precedent for HBO fare screening in competition, as “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” did just that in 2004.
Fremaux said that while Soderbergh had initially wanted to present “Candelabra” out of competition, the fest topper had begged the director via email to “say yes” to a competition slot, and Soderbergh agreed.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s anticipated follow-up to Cannes-preeming “Drive,” “Only God Forgives,” starring Ryan Gosling as a British gangster hiding in Bangkok’s criminal underworld, was co-financed and co-produced by two Paris-based powerhouses, Wild Bunch and Gaumont, which share international sales. Other notable Gallic contenders include a duo of sultry Wild Bunch titles: Francois Ozon’s “Jeune et jolie,” about an upper-class teenage girl who prostitutes herself; and Abdellatif Kechiche’s coming-of-age drama “La Vie d’Adele,” toplining Lea Seydoux.
The English-language debut of French helmer Guillaume Canet, “Blood Ties,” will play out of competition, along with J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost,” toplining Robert Redford.
The Un Certain Regard selection, which has gained a higher profile under Fremaux’s leadership, will open with Sofia Coppola’s glitzy L.A.-set crime/drama “The Bling Ring,” as previously announced. The program will also play Rebecca Zlotowski’s sophomore pic “Grand Central,” starring Tahar Rahim and Lea Seydoux; James Franco’s “As I Lay Dying;” Claire Denis’ “The Bastards”; and recent Sundance prizewinner “Fruitvale Station,” from Ryan Coogler.
Kicking off with Leonardo DiCaprio starrer “The Great Gatsby” on May 15 (as previously announced), Cannes will once again be a glam affair with such stars as Gosling in “Forgives”; Benicio Del Toro in “Jimmy P.”; Matt Damon and Michael Douglas in “Candelabra”; Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman in “Llewyn Davis”; Emma Watson in “The Bling Ring”; Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Marion Cotillard in “The Immigrant”; Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Clive Owen and Cotillard again in ”Blood Ties”; Berenice Bejo in “The Past”; and Seydoux in “La Vie d’Adele” and “Grand Central.”
2013 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP
OPENER
“The Great Gatsby” (Baz Luhrmann)
COMPETITION
“Behind the Candelabra” (Steven Soderbergh)
“Borgman” (Alex van Warmerdam)
“The Great Beauty” (Paolo Sorrentino)
“Grigris” (Mahamet Saleh-Haroun)
“Heli” (Amat Escalante)
“The Immigrant” (James Gray)
“Inside Llewyn Davis” (Joel and Ethan Coen)
“Jeune et jolie” (Francois Ozon)
“Jimmy P.” (Arnaud Desplechin)
“La Vie d’Adele” (Abdellatif Kechiche)
“Like Father, Like Son” (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
“Michael Kohlhaas” (Arnaud des Pallieres)
“Nebraska” (Alexander Payne)
“Only God Forgives” (Nicolas Winding Refn)
“The Past” (Asghar Farhadi)
“Straw Shield” (Takashi Miike)
“A Touch of Sin” (Jia Zhangke)
“Un chateau en Italie” (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
“Venus in Fur” (Roman Polanski)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“All Is Lost” (J.C. Chandor)
“Blood Ties” (Guillaume Canet)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
OPENER: “The Bling Ring” (Sofia Coppola)
“Anonymous” (Mohammad Rasoulof)
“The Bastards” (Claire Denis)
“Bends” (Flora Lau)
“Death March” (Adolfo Alix Jr.)
“Fruitvale Station” (Ryan Coogler)
“Grand Central” (Rebecca Zlotowski)
“La Jaula de Oro” (Diego Quemada-Diez)
“L’image manquante” (Rithy Panh)
“L’inconnu du lac” (Alain Guiraudie)
“Miele” (Valeria Golino)
“Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan” (Lav Diaz)
“Omar” (Hany Abu-Assad)
“Sarah prefere la course” (Chloe Robichaud)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Blind Detective” (Johnnie To)
“Monsoon Shootout” (Amit Kumar)
HOMAGE TO JERRY LEWIS
“Max Rose” (Daniel Noah)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Bite the Dust” (Taisia Igumentseva)
“Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight” (Stephen Frears)
“Seduced and Abandoned” (James Toback)
“Stop the Pounding Heart” (Roberto Minervini)
“Week End of a Champion” (Roman Polanski)
GALA SCREENING IN HONOR OF INDIA
“Bombay Talkies” (Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar)
CLOSER
“Zulu” (Jerome Salle)
